piXserve

An image and video search engine from piXlogic, piXserve uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to analyze visual content, recognizing faces, objects, scenes and text, and then tags what appears so that big collections can be searched by their contents. The software can be installed on a customer's own premises or used in a private cloud, a choice the company highlights as part of its offer.

Indexing that labels what is on screen

The engine indexes images and videos automatically and labels them with metadata that describes the faces, objects, scenes and text they contain. The company says the generated metadata is detailed enough to greatly reduce the manual entry that archives otherwise need, and that the engine can highlight specific objects within a frame to sharpen results.

Searching footage and pictures

Users can locate stills or clips showing a selected object, scene, string of text or person. The company says this is more accurate than simple text search, which depends on file names and captions that may be missing or wrong, and that it saves users the trial and error of keyword searches.

Alerts from live video and web crawls

The software can notify users when items of interest appear in a live video stream or in material gathered by a web crawl. The company presents this as a way to extend the capabilities of security surveillance systems, letting operators search recorded video and identify potential threats.

Law enforcement, security and defence

Law enforcement agencies can use the system to analyze video and image evidence for criminal cases, to track material and to navigate large collections. The company describes it as well suited to the military and the intelligence community, where visual search of large volumes of recorded material is needed.

Retail and media uses

Retailers can analyse visual data on shopper behavior in store and online, to understand differences between stores and to plan promotional campaigns. Media producers can search archived video sequences during production and identify advertising opportunities such as product placement.

Face recognition with coverings

The system detects and recognizes faces, including people wearing face coverings. The company says this capability is included in all editions of piXserve, which are offered for both small workgroups and large enterprises, and that it helps accuracy when faces are partly hidden.